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Optoelectric spin injection in semiconductor heterostructures without a ferromagnet

Mal'shukov, AG and Chao, Koung-An LU (2002) In Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) 65(24).
Abstract
We have shown that electron-spin density can be generated by a dc current flowing across a pn junction with an embedded asymmetric quantum well. Spin polarization is created in the quantum well by radiative electron-hole recombination when the conduction electron momentum distribution is shifted with respect to the momentum distribution of holes in the spin-split valence subbands. Spin current appears when the spin polarization is injected from the quantum well into the n-doped region of the pn junction. The accompanied emission of circularly polarized light from the quantum well can serve as a spin polarization detector.
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10.1103/PhysRevB.65.241308
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  abstract     = {{We have shown that electron-spin density can be generated by a dc current flowing across a pn junction with an embedded asymmetric quantum well. Spin polarization is created in the quantum well by radiative electron-hole recombination when the conduction electron momentum distribution is shifted with respect to the momentum distribution of holes in the spin-split valence subbands. Spin current appears when the spin polarization is injected from the quantum well into the n-doped region of the pn junction. The accompanied emission of circularly polarized light from the quantum well can serve as a spin polarization detector.}},
  author       = {{Mal'shukov, AG and Chao, Koung-An}},
  issn         = {{1098-0121}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{24}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics)}},
  title        = {{Optoelectric spin injection in semiconductor heterostructures without a ferromagnet}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.241308}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevB.65.241308}},
  volume       = {{65}},
  year         = {{2002}},
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